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GHSA-8wx3-324g-w4qq json

OpenSearch uncontrolled resource consumption

published 3y ago modified last yr.

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

### Impact An issue has been identified with how OpenSearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An unauthenticated user could force an OpenSearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error by sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests.

The issue was identified by Elastic Engineering and corresponds to security advisory [ESA-2023-13](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-0-7-17-13-security-update/343616) (CVE-2023-31418).

### Mitigation Versions 1.3.14 and 2.11.0 contain a fix for this issue.

### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please contact AWS/Amazon Security via our issue reporting page (https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/) or directly via email to [aws-security@amazon.com](mailto:aws-security@amazon.com). Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security 1.3.14.0, 2.11.0.0

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security
<1.3.14.0
>=2.0.0.0, <2.11.0.0
1.3.14.0
2.11.0.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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